On 5/10/06, Peter Jacobi peter_jacobi@gmx.net wrote:
Quite often, when I stumble by accident into an article, perhaps interwiki-ing from/to de.wikipedia, I find dozens of weblinks and not a single book given, even when they are easy to find, even for me.
At some point of time we must stop trying to evolve into a backup copy of the WWW and draw from other sources.
Of course, sometimes it's quite hard to find non-web sources. For example, I've written articles on a number of World War II-era German AFVs. My local library doesn't have a single scholarly work on the subject - possibly a legacy of the neo-Nazis in the next state over - and I'm not about to write a Wikipedia article from a book targeted at ten-year-olds. I've been working from websites that reference those scholarly works, instead.
It's quite frustrating having a list of three dozen possible print sources, and not being able to find a single one of them in a library within reasonable driving distance.